Authors
- Howard Bahr, novelist
- Larry Brown (1951-2004), author
- Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton), novelist
- John Faulkner (1901–1963), plain-style writer, brother of William Faulkner
- William Faulkner (1897-1962), author, Nobel laureate
- John Grisham, author, attorney, state representative
- Carolyn Haines, author
- Greg Iles, novelist, screenwriter
- Florence King, humorist and political columnist (attended graduate school but did not complete the program)
- Florence Mars (1923-2006), author
- Stel Pavlou, author, screenwriter (studied as an exchange student)
- Genevieve Pou (1919-2007), author
- Robert Bruce Smith, IV, Mississippi historian
- Donna Tartt, author
- Stark Young, playwright, novelist, and drama critic
- Patrick D. Smith, author
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